In comes Mr. Hazlitt, or Martin Burney, or Morgan Demi-gorgon, or my brother, or somebody, to prevent my eating alone,a process absolutely necessary to my poor wretched digestion.

She stood fixed as if turned to stone, in an attitude which for one fleeting instant recalled that of the sculptured figures undergoing sudden petrifaction at the sight of the Gorgon's head.

Rolls in their marble orbs his Gorgon-eyes, And drinks with leathern ears her tender cries.

[Object of fear] bug bear, bugaboo; scarecrow; hobgoblin &c (demon) 980; nightmare, Gorgon, mormo^, ogre, Hurlothrumbo^, raw head and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire [Fr.], enfant terrible [Fr.]. alarmist &c (coward) 862.

To them he proclaimed that in the city of Peirene his sire bare rule and had rich heritage of land and palace, even he who once, when he longed to bridle the snaky Gorgon's son, Pegasos, at Peirene's spring, suffered many things, until the time when maiden Pallas brought to him a bit with head-band of gold, and from a dream behold it was very deed.

Of one thing only must he be quite certain: that under no circumstances will he discover any lack of worth in himself when the veil is raised; the sight of it would be the Gorgon that would kill him.

Like a foul Gorgon," &c. "It hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep, thickens the blood," (Fernelius, l. 1. c. 18.

Hadst thou Sampson's hair, Milo's strength, Scanderbeg's arm, Solomon's wisdom, Absalom's beauty, Croesus' wealth, Pasetis obulum, Caesar's valour, Alexander's spirit, Tully's or Demosthenes' eloquence, Gyges' ring, Perseus' Pegasus, and Gorgon's head, Nestor's years to come, all this would not make thee absolute; give thee content, and true happiness in this life, or so continue it.

Tench returned to England in H.M.S. Gorgon, in December, 1791.

She felt that at that moment she could have looked at a gorgon, say, or a cockatrice, or any other trifle of that nature with infinitely greater composure.

No; but dread, horror, almost disgust, as she gazed with side-long, startled eyes, struggling, and yet struggling in vain, to turn her face from some horrible sight, as if her own image had been the Gorgon's head.

The oldest represent Perseus cutting off the Gorgon's head, and Hercules killing two thieves.

Perseus has the calm, sleepy look of a Hindoo god,while Gorgon's head, with goggle eyes and protruding tongue, resembles a Mexican idol.

But see, my soul, such bug-bears has repell'd With magnanimity unparallel'd! Take up the volume, every care dismiss, And smile, gruff Gorgon!

Oh! gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess! lay thy chastening hand, Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, Nor circled with the vengeful band: (As by the impious thou art seen), With thundering voice and threatening mien, With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty. 6 Thy form benign, O Goddess!

He flew a little nearer; but he did not dare to look straight forward, lest he should all at once meet the gaze of a Gorgon, and be changed into stone.

Then Perseus slipped the Gorgon's head back into the pouch and hastened to speak with the young girl whom he had saved.

"Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon."Id.

Perseus and the Gorgon.

But see, my soul such bug-bears has repell'd With magnanimity unparallel'd! Take up the volumes, every care dismiss, And smile, gruff Gorgon!

The Prize, it seems, fell at length upon a Cobler, Giles Gorgon by Name, who produced several new Grinns of his own Invention, having been used to cut Faces for many Years together over his Last.

ge Horace Lorimer With pictures by F.R. Gruger and Martin Justice 1903 FROM A SON TO HIS FATHER CONTENTS I. From John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Company, pork packers, in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as Old Gorgon Graham, to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards.

The old man has been advised by wire of the arrival of a prospective partner, and that the mother, the son, and the business are all doing well No. 1 From John Graham, head of the house of Graham & Company, pork packers, in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as Old Gorgon Graham, to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards.

a goat's skin), the shield of Zeus, made of the hide of the goat AMALTHEA (q. v.), representing originally the storm-cloud in which the god invested himself when he was angry; it was also the attribute of Athena, bearing in her case the Gorgon's head. ÆGIS`THUS.

Orestes, pursued by the avenging Furies, "Gorgon-like, vested in sable stoles, their locks entwined with clustering snakes," has fled to Delphi to invoke the aid of Apollo.